Edit a Permission Group for the Document Management Tool
Objective
To edit an existing permission group in the Document Management tool.
Things to Consider
- Required User Permissions:
- 'Admin' level permissions to the project's Document Management tool.
Video
Steps
- Navigate to the project's Document Management tool.
- Click the Configure Settings
icon.
- In the 'Permission Groups' section of the Permissions tab, locate the permission group that you want to edit.
- Click the edit
icon for the permission group.
- See the sections below for available actions:
Add or Remove People
- In the Edit Permission Group panel, click the People tab.
- Click Edit People.
- Add or remove people as necessary:
- To add a person to the group, mark the checkbox next to each user you want to add to the permission group.
- To remove a person from the group, click the delete
icon.
Important! Removing a person from the group will impact their document permissions for the project.
- When you are done making changes to the permission group, click Submit.
Edit Permission Group Settings
- In the 'Edit Permission Group' panel, click the Permissions tab.
- See the sections below for more information on making changes to the permission group settings.
Edit Upload and Submit Permissions
- In the 'Upload Permissions' section, mark or clear the checkbox to determine whether this group should have permission to upload and submit files to the tool:
- Upload New Files: Allows users to upload files to the tool and complete information. See Upload Documents and Complete Information for Documents.
Note: If the 'Upload New Files' permission is disabled, the 'Submit New Files' permission is automatically disabled. - Submit New Files: Allows users to submit completed documents to the project. See Submit Documents.
- Upload New Files: Allows users to upload files to the tool and complete information. See Upload Documents and Complete Information for Documents.
- If you are done making changes, click Save.
Edit the Permission Type
- In the 'Document Permissions' section, click Grant Permissions.
- Under 'Select Permission Type', choose Admin, Owner, or Viewer.
- Click Submit.
- If you are done making changes, click Save.
Edit Access to Documents
- In the 'Document Permissions' section, click Grant Permissions to add new permissions or click the edit
icon next to any existing document permissions to modify them.
- Under 'Select Documents', choose one of the following to give the group permissions to:
- All Documents
- Only Documents with Selected Attributes.
- Click the Add Attribute Set button.
- Click Select Attributes to choose one attribute (field) that is relevant for controlling access for this group.
Note: You can select a custom field (attribute) if it's one of the following field types: company, location, or single select (dropdown). - Click the 'includes any of' menu to select one or more values for the attribute selected above.
Note: If any of your selected values apply to a document, the document will show in each group members' Document Management tool. A document does not need all the selected values in order to be available to a group member. - If you want to add additional attribute sets, repeat these steps.
- Click Submit.
- If you are done making changes to the permission group, click Save.
Edit Attributes for Document Access
Note: This is only applicable if 'Only Documents with Selected Attributes' is selected for the permission group:
- Under 'Document Permissions', click the edit
icon.
- Add or remove attributes as necessary.
Note: You can select a custom field (attribute) if it's one of the following field types: company, location, or single select (dropdown). - Click Submit.
- If you are done making changes, click Save.